windfalls n. 意外的收获;侥幸所得(windfall的复数形式)
- This would be less damaging if, during aid windfalls, poor countries made up for the foregone investment—but they do not.
这还不是最糟的,当援助突然从天而降,穷国政府决心追回原先的投资——可惜不行。 - Unlike during past increases in the price of oil, petroleum producing countries have chosen to conserve rather than spend their windfalls.
,石油生产国选择将石油上涨带来的收益保存起来,而不是像以往一样将意外之财挥霍掉。 - But even if oil windfalls are spent largely on goods produced by oil importers, the abrupt shift in the distribution of global income will still be destabilising.
即便他们用这摇钱树上多出的钱都用来购买石油进口国的货物,世界收入分布的突然变化也依然会造成不安。